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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

CZM Book Club: A Story from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History

4.7902 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

 Margaret reads you a medieval comedic tale of trickery and lust.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:06.0

CoolZone Media.

0:11.1

Book club.

0:12.1

Book club.

0:13.1

Book club.

0:15.0

Book club.

0:15.9

Club.

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Club.

0:17.8

Club.

0:18.6

Hello and welcome to Club Club Club Club Club, Club, the only book club where you don't

0:23.5

have to do the reading because I do it for you.

0:26.6

And if you thought that introduction didn't make much sense, well, we're going to read

0:31.0

medieval literature to you today.

0:34.2

But I actually think the story we're going to read makes sense.

0:36.4

I think it's really funny. I think it's a good story.

0:38.6

This week we have a funny story for you.

0:41.3

This is a story from the Decameron,

0:44.0

which is a verified ye-oldy collection of stories,

0:47.6

thought to have been written in Italian between 1348 and 1353

0:52.2

by a guy named Giovanni Boccaccio. The overarching thread between these stories,

0:58.2

if you haven't seen the, there's a TV show that gets at a lot of the basic ideas of it that

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